Crying Wolf Quotes:

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

- Criss Jami

source: Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.95, Criss Jami

topic: Sympathy, Needs, Helping, Need Help, Looking For Sympathy

Crying wolf may have been the boy's undoing, but the true irony was that the wolves were always lurking nearby.

- Wes Fesler

topic: Boys, May, Irony, Lurking, Undoing

Crying wolf is a real danger.

- David Attenborough

topic: Real, Cry, Danger, Crying Wolf

Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.

- Vladimir Nabokov

source: Lectures on Literature "Good Readers and Good Writers" (1980)

topic: Running, Writing, Boys, Neanderthals, Crying Wolf

The Fed wants to raise rates because they've been yelling and screaming about it. They've been crying wolf for so long that their credibility is shot, and I think they feel they need to.

- Gary Shilling

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Thinking, Yelling, Long, Crying Wolf, Yelling And Screaming